Reconstruction Era: 1876 & 1877. Winn Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** >From THE EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS Printed By Order of The United States Senate For The Second Session Of The Forty-Fourth Congress 1876 And '77 And The Special Session Of The Senate, March 1877 In Three Volumes Washington: Government Printing Office 1877 "By the official registration of that year the following parishes had the number of republican votes set opposite their names: Winn-243. Now, in the presidential election held in November, 1868, the vote for Grant was, in the same parishes, as follows: Winn-43. These parishes have since cast the following vote. In 1870, for Graham, auditor: Winn-81." (above from pages 170-171) "In 1872 for Kellogg, Governor: Winn-109 In 1874, vote for Dubuclet, Treasurer: Winn-(vote thrown out for violence). The republican registration for 1876 in those parishes is as follows: Winn-112 In this connection, and before passing on, and while I am engaged in tables, let me give the vote of fifteen bull-dozed parishes in 1876. These parishes are East Baton Rouge, Bienville, Caldwell, Claiborne, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, Morehouse, Richland, Union, Washington, and Winn. The republican registration of these parishes in 1868 was as follows: Winn-943 In 1870, the same parishes gave the following republican vote: Winn-81. These same parishes in 1872 gave a republican vote of: Winn-109. These parishes in 1874 gave the following republican vote: Winn-thrown out for violence. The registration in these same parishes for 1876, colored, is as follows: Winn-112. Thus we have seen that these fifteen parishes have a registered republican vote of 17,726 and in peaceful years have cast a republican vote of from 9,300 to 12,500. And in these same fifteen parishes, under the reign of terror caused by the Knights of the White Camellia, in 1868, only cast 3,935 republican votes, as will be seen by the following table: Winn-43. (The above from pages 172 and 173) And now, these same fifteen parishes, under the reign of terror in 1876, caused by the bull-dozers, cast only 7,578 republican votes, as claimed by the democrats, as will be seen by the following table: Winn-78. Is not the coincidence striking? Now to bring out still more clearly the true disparity between the true republican vote of these parishes and this pretended vote, under a reign of murder, I add the following table, taken from the official census, of persons over the age of twenty-one in those parishes, made in 1875: Black males over the age of twenty-one: Winn-161. (The above from page 174) Schedule of votes cast in 1872 and 1874; also registration of whites and blacks for same years: Winn: Returns by Forman Board, 1872=McEnery-575 Kellogg-114 Fusion Registration, 1872=White-755 Black-135 Republican registration, 1874=White-135 Black-96 (The above from p. 178) Census of the State of Louisiana-1870: State Census of 1875 Registration of 1874: Winn-726 Winn-4,044 white Winn-5,538 white 909 black 997 black Entitled to vote in 1875: 1 Indian or Chinese 5,355 total Winn-1,006 4,954 Total (The above from p. 183) 1875 Census of Louisiana: Winn: Males-2,681 Females-2,674 White-4,358 Colored-997 Indian and Chinese-0 Number native-born-5,341 Number foreign-born-14 Total population-5,355 Literate white-1,708 Literate colored-35 Illiterate white-2,223 Illiterate colored-711 Number foriegners not naturalized-4 Number foriegners naturalized-8 Number persons entitled to vote-1,006 Number of children between 6 and 21-1,807 Number acres of land improved-16,706 Number acres of land unimproved-79,254 Number of persons temporarily absent-9 Number of persons over 18 who have had yellow fever-12 Births in 1874-245 Number of colleges, universities, and schools-33 Number of pupils therein-1,055 (The above from page 185)